alure
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure (modern French aller).
Noun
alure (plural alures)
- (obsolete) A walk or passage.
- T. Warton
- The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble.
- T. Warton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)